[and thank goodness for that! because Knife has no fucking idea how this part of town is laid out. or any part of town, frankly! it'll be all too easy to get cornered, turned around, or altogether fucked if they have to keep at it.
they can still hear the woman's heavy footfalls from a distance, the acoustics of a nigh-abandoned city doing real ruin on Knife's nerves.
pressing themself flat around a corner to catch their breath, begging those steps to go the other way (prayers not answered, as usual), they mutter a couple curses before dropping low and peeking around the corner.]
Fuck you!
[they throw the childlike voice back the other way, get up, and start hoofing it again.]
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they can still hear the woman's heavy footfalls from a distance, the acoustics of a nigh-abandoned city doing real ruin on Knife's nerves.
pressing themself flat around a corner to catch their breath, begging those steps to go the other way (prayers not answered, as usual), they mutter a couple curses before dropping low and peeking around the corner.]
Fuck you!
[they throw the childlike voice back the other way, get up, and start hoofing it again.]